Beijing (AFP) - China’s economic recovery stabilised in April, an official factory activity gauge showed Sunday, as the property market recovered and credit grew.The Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI), tracking activity in factories and workshops, rose for the second successive month, the National Bureau of Statistics said.The figure was 50.1 compared to 50.2 in March. But any reading above 50 signals expanding activity, while anything below indicates shrinkage.Investors watch the figure closely as the first available indicator each month of the health of the world’s second biggest economy.PMI f...
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Chinese police are joining Italian officers on the streets of Rome and Milan in an experiment aimed at helping tourists from China feel safe, Italy’s interior ministry has announced.The experiment is the first of its kind in Europe, China’s ambassador to Italy, Li Ruiyu, said at a meeting to announce the project, according to a statement from the Italian ministry.The four Chinese officers, who were trained by Italians in Beijing, will wear the same uniforms they wear at home so their compatriots can recognise them easily.More than 3 million Chinese tourists come to Italy every year, according ...
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With the Beijing Motor Show underway, the days when the country’s domestic car firms was brushed off as mere copycats are well and truly over.And a lot of this year’s buzz is around driverless cars in particular.In past years, innovation might have come from Silicon valley, but Chinese companies are pushing ahead."There is a lot more going on in China than many in the West have realized," car expert Prof David Bailey of the Aston Business School tells the BBC.Who are the big players?Changan: Two driverless cars drove more than 2,000km (1,240 miles) from its headquarters to Beijing us...
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Poor battery life is the number one complaint when it comes to smartphones and laptops. As a wireless society, having to tether ourselves down to power up our gadgets seems more and more a nuisance. And while researchers are looking into wireless charging, if batteries were better we would have to worry less.Now, a new technology promises just that. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have invented a nanowire-based battery that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, a significant leap towards a battery that doesn’t require replacing.Nanowires possess several ideal ...
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BEIJING, April 24 -- China is open to space cooperation with all nations including the United States, the heavyweights of China’s space program said on Sunday, the anniversary of China’s first satellite launch 46 years ago."China will not rule out cooperating with any country, and that includes the United States," said Yang Liwei, China’s first astronaut.Payload has been reserved in the Chinese space station, due to enter service around 2022, for international projects and foreign astronauts, said Yang on the occasion of the first China Space Day, an annual celebration newly designat...
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